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bush and to president obama. true today, president obama went further and signed the pepfar and global fund re-authorization bill into law and i'm proud that president obama announced a commitment of $1 for every $2 provided by other donors up to $5 billion through 2016. this marks a likely $1 billion increase over previous years. that means more lives saved, quality of life increased. our work is far from finished. h.i.v. and aids is a really resourceful disease that virus ever mutating, just when you think that we have it in our sights, it changes. so we have to be resourceful in hiv-aids h to the allow ecause we kill not h.i.v. and aids to claim so many lives when we have within our means the science, the prevention, the care the search for a cure. to make a difference. one of the most exciting parts of it is that we will now be able to have an aids-free generation of transmitals from mother to child which is quite a remarkable -- among other remarkable aspects of it. but this is a really important issue about
bush and to president obama. true today, president obama went further and signed the pepfar and global fund re-authorization bill into law and i'm proud that president obama announced a commitment of $1 for every $2 provided by other donors up to $5 billion through 2016. this marks a likely $1 billion increase over previous years. that means more lives saved, quality of life increased. our work is far from finished. h.i.v. and aids is a really resourceful disease that virus ever mutating, just...
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although the obama administration did request and employ some modest funding in the recovery act and has proposed an infrastructure bank and talked extensively and i think sincerely about the need for investment, what has been lacking has been a specific concrete proposal from either party to address infrastructure financing in america. while the political maneuvering has secured here in washington, the gap in the highway trust fund has been growing and conditions of our roads, bridges and transit systems have been deteriorating. this puts america at a competitive disadvantage, complicates the movement of goods and people and contributes to congestion and pollution. at the same time, the needs grow, the resources are in significant decline. the gas tax has not been increased since the clinton administration 20 years ago. the future prospects are even worse. demands are increasing and deferred maintenance takes its toll while we watch the bottom fall out of the highway trust fund. we've seen a slowdown in revenue due to the near collapse of the economy, a shift in driving patterns whi
although the obama administration did request and employ some modest funding in the recovery act and has proposed an infrastructure bank and talked extensively and i think sincerely about the need for investment, what has been lacking has been a specific concrete proposal from either party to address infrastructure financing in america. while the political maneuvering has secured here in washington, the gap in the highway trust fund has been growing and conditions of our roads, bridges and...
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who was advising president bush in an op-ed to cut a deal with kim jong il that he really wants to make a deal. kind of like korea did, north korea did in 1994. she was wrong in 1994. she was wrong in 2001. she's wrong now about iran. we're told that those who refuse to learn from history are destined to repeat it. and when there is enough arrogance that anyone, any leader thinks they are smarter, wiser, better than anybody that's gone before, therefore they can make a better deal with corrupt and evil people like no one else has made, then their name goes down in history ust as neville chamberlain's has. he's waved his peace agreement, which he agreed to give away part of europe to his fuhrer thinking it meant peace in his his nd what it meant was ignorance and insidivity was going to cost -- naivity was going to cost millions of people their lives. history is there for people who are willing to study and learn from it. a shoulder -- i shoulder for the people in israel. i shoulder for people in the united states that think we're invulnerable. the only way the united states could possib
who was advising president bush in an op-ed to cut a deal with kim jong il that he really wants to make a deal. kind of like korea did, north korea did in 1994. she was wrong in 1994. she was wrong in 2001. she's wrong now about iran. we're told that those who refuse to learn from history are destined to repeat it. and when there is enough arrogance that anyone, any leader thinks they are smarter, wiser, better than anybody that's gone before, therefore they can make a better deal with corrupt...